[Sigia-l] web safe colors

[andrew]

Hi Folks,

someone slap me for a pedant if I have this wrong, (its been that kind of a 
day) :) but aren't there just 216 websafe colours not the expected 256?

Cheers, Andrew

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 01:53, Mike Combs wrote:
> I disagree with Ziya. <ducking>
>
> I would not make that general a characterization....
>
> You need to know your audience.  I design intranet applications for a large
> company where all the branch offices use thin clients for to access the
> Internet, and they only see 256 colors on their monitors.
>
> I take the approach of graceful degradation.  If you stray from the web
> safe world, then pick colors that will degrade best when viewed on a 256
> color monitor - and test the pages in 256 colors.
>
> > Is there a consensus on using websafe these days?
> > Roughly comparable to the NN4 browser problem.
>
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